Bill Text: NJ S1474 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Requires teacher preparation program for instructional certificate to include certain amount of instruction or clinical experience in special education and for students with disabilities endorsement to include credit hours in autism spectrum disorder.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-02-06 - Approved P.L.2007, c.6. [S1474 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2016-S1474-Chaptered.html

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§§1-3 -

C.18A:26-2.23 to

18A:26-2.25

§4 - Note

 

P.L.2017, CHAPTER 6, approved February 6, 2017

Senate, No. 1474 (First Reprint)

 

 

An Act concerning special education and supplementing chapter 26 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes. 

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    In addition to any other requirements adopted by the State Board of Education for teacher preparation programs, the State board shall require that the preparation program for an instructional certificate include a minimum of the equivalent of 6 semester credit hours of classroom instruction, clinical experience, including student internships, or a combination thereof, in special education. 

 

     2.    In addition to any other requirements adopted by the State Board of Education for teacher preparation programs, the State Board of Education shall require that the preparation program for an instructional certificate with a teacher of students with disabilities endorsement shall include credit hours in autism spectrum disorder and ¹comprehensive¹ evidence-based instructional practices to address the educational ¹strengths and¹ needs of students with autism.

 

     3.    The State Board of Education shall adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), the rules and regulations necessary to carry out the provisions

of this act.

 

     4.    This act shall take effect ¹[immediately] in the first full academic year following enactment¹.

 

 

                                

 

     Requires teacher preparation program for instructional certificate to include certain amount of instruction or clinical experience in special education and for students with disabilities endorsement to include credit hours in autism spectrum disorder.